§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Under Secretary of State for India if any and what "provisions for renewal" are attached to the seven years' lease of the Burmah Ruby Mines granted 702 to Messrs. Streeter; and, if there are provisions for renewal, whether those provisions were set out when tenders were invited?
SIR J. GORSTThe lease of the Ruby Mines to Messrs. Streeter provides for renewal at the end of seven years, unless the Government decides to carry on the mines itself, or unless some third party makes a higher offer for a fresh lease than the licencees are willing to give. The provisions for renewal were not set out in the invitation for tenders, but it was intimated that clauses would be inserted in the lease "as to such other matters and details as might be found necessary."